Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

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Telling Stories
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Telling Stories is the first major exhibition to explore the connections between Norman Rockwell’s iconic images of American life and the movies. The exhibition's dates are July 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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George Lucas
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George Lucas created American Graffiti in 1973, Star Wars in 1977, and many other films during his famous career. He also started his own visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, to create the special effects in Star Wars.

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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg made his first amateur film at the age of 12, an 8-minute Western called The Last Gun. Since then he has directed numerous films such as Jaws, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.

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Daniel Boone
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Daniel Boone was born in 1734 in Exeter County, Pennsylvania. He was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman. Soon he became the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction. The Boone myth reached a media peak in the 1960's with the NBC television adventure series Daniel Boone (1964 - 1970).

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Gary Cooper
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Gary Cooper, born in 1901, became a famous American actor. He acted in many Westerns and played the title role in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

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Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton
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The film Letty Lynton was released in 1932. Joan Crawford's white evening dress from the film was copied and sold to eager fans in Department Stores across the United States.

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Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese raided Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This attack removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese. Thus the United States was brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

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Peter Rockwell
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12 Angry Men
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The 1957 film 12 Angry Men follows a jury as they decide whether the defendant, a teenage boy from a city slum, allegedly murdered his father.

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Channels: American Art
Artists: Norman Rockwell

Telling Stories is the first major exhibition to explore the connections between Norman Rockwell’s iconic images of American life and the movies. This movie features interviews with the collectors, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, that reveal their insights into Rockwell’s art and why certain works appealed to them.

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